
Today in Music History: In 1985, UK producer and keyboard player Paul Hardcastle was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with '19'. The title referred to the average age of American soldiers in the Vietnam war. The Island hosts a phenomenon that I have never seen anywhere else. I call them Jumpers . Not the kind that go splat off a high rise, these jumpers start out innocently enough as pedestrians. Maybe it's something about walking that turns them into idiots, or maybe it's the breeze [...]

So, about the whole "nerdity" kick I've been on lately? It started off as an easy springboard for putting together ready-made themes, but I've come to enjoy the opportunity to pontificate upon and discuss the various related topics (fan entitlement, the nostalgia trap, and so forth) that come with the territory. Before settling on the mp3 blog gimmick, I had considered starting a comics-themed blog, but realized that there wasn't a hell of a lot I had to say that wasn't being stated more effectively elsewhere. The nerdity posts have allowed me to scratch that comics blogging [...]
I like memes, especially music-related ones. They are a great way to generate plug-and-play posts when I’m too lazy to do my own thinking. This meme comes courtesy of Bully , by way of Kevin Church . Total amount of music files on your computer: Currently 46 gigabytes, but the totals are always in a state of flux as I’m constantly shifting things in and out of my archives. The last CD you bought was: A used copy of Metro Stylee’s self-titled album from [...]